Tom Fitton: FBI Director is Protecting Same Gang that Tried to Illegally Overthrow President Trump

May 7, 2019- JW President Tom Fitton appeared “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the current state of the FBI and the House Judiciary Committee’s attempt to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt for not appearing at a hearing.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-fbi-director-is-protecting-same-gang-that-tried-to-illegally-overthrow-president-trump/

Yes, the System is “Rigged”—the Question is How

Once again, some leading capitalists are worried about capitalism’s future, as indeed they should be. Their voices join those of critics from the left who think America’s version of capitalism is rigged. And rigged it is.

Recently, JPMorgan Chase CEO James Dimon and large hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio expressed concern about the health of American capitalism. First off, major political voices and freshly announced presidential candidates are highly critical of today’s capitalism, some to the point of endorsing socialism. They are getting a lot of attention and enthusiastic support.

Second and more tellingly, the two capitalists agree in part with capitalism’s critics. As they see it, plenty of people are smiling while closing loans on their second mansions, but a lot of ordinary people are not sharing in capitalism’s prodigious outpouring. More central to their concern, Dimon and Dalio see a hamstrung federal government incapable of doing anything about it.

Of course, economic systems evolve, and business historians have given more than a handful of monikers to America’s capitalist system. In the industrial heydays when automobiles were first produced in large numbers and steel mills pumped out miles of railroad track, we had “industrial capitalism.” When the ability to raise large amounts of capital for giant enterprises became critical, “financial capitalism” was born. And following the Great Depression and the regulatory remedies to counter it, the name changed to “government capitalism.”

Whatever affected capitalism the most got added to its name. In its current mode, we might accurately call our system “regulated capitalism,” and it is becoming more so.

Between 2000 through 2016, the number of regulatory restrictions written into the Code of Federal Regulation for all industries, as reported in the Mercatus Center at George Mason University’s RegData tally, has risen from a staggering level of 857,793 to 1,083,318. That’s a 26 percent increase.

Here’s another way to look at it: The share of American employment accounted for by economic sectors that might be termed “highly regulated”—including education and health, finance, government and utilities—rose from 31.5 percent in March 2000 to 49 percent in March 2019.

https://www.aier.org/article/yes-system-%E2%80%9Crigged%E2%80%9D-question-how

>>6449387

sad but true

Portuguese Pilot Shot Down in Libya Is Covered in Kabbalistic Tattoos - An Israeli Link?

Thanks to the well-known pop star and devil worshipper Madonna, we know a lot more about the Kabbalah than we wish we did.

Before joining the dots that explain the headline of this article, its important first to describe the shooting down the other day of a fighter jet in Libya.

A French made fighter jet, a Mirage F1, was shot down on Monday of this week over Tripoli by forces fighting for the liberation of Tripoli from extremist militias have captured its European pilot.

The Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, released video footage Tuesday of a man in bloodied clothes. Under questioning, which continues, he identified himself as a 29-year-old Portuguese national working as a private contractor pilot. It is presumed he was working for one of the extremist militias that, in reality, make up the Armed Forces of, so called by the U.N., Prime Minister Fayez Serraj.

The LNA, which is slowly but surely defeating the militias of the ‘Serraj government’, says it shot the man’s plane down over the capital.

This is the first proof of foreign mercenaries fighting for the international community’s U.N. backed Tripoli based ‘government’. (As stated earlier, who In actuality, due to there existing no GNA Armed Forces, no real Serraj government forces, are a collection of militias with a dominant influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation that dates back to the 1920s that is already designated in some countries as a terrorist organisation).

https://russia-insider.com/en/portuguese-pilot-shot-down-libya-covered-kabbalistic-tattoos-israeli-link/ri26992

Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Will Use Sanctions, Military Threats to Force Palestinian Acceptance

Recently leaked provisions of the plan include threats of US sanctions & military force if Palestinians reject the plan and a requirement for Palestinians to pay the Israeli Defense Forces for protection.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson, has published in Hebrew a leaked draft of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” for the Israel-Palestine conflict. The draft was given to the newspaper by an official from Israel’s Foreign Ministry, which is currently headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan, which has been drafted by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, is expected to be released this June after the conclusion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to Mondoweiss.

The draft plan published by Israel Hayom, while in keeping with many of the details that have been leaked to the press in past weeks and months, contains several new and troubling claims, including the Trump administration’s plan to force Palestinian leadership to accept the plan through threats of economic strangulation and military force.

For instance, if Palestinian leadership — such as the Palestinian Authority (PA) or Hamas — rejects the Trump administration’s “peace plan,” the United States will respond aggressively by ensuring that “no country in the world transfer money” to Palestine, which would apparently be accomplished through U.S. sanctions. With Palestine’s economy and the livelihood of many Palestinians dependent on foreign aid, such an act would amount to economic strangulation of the over 6 million Palestinians in the West Bank and around 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-deal-of-the-century-will-use-sanctions-military-threats-to-force-palestinian-acceptance/258312/

Detroit Police Spent More Than Half Million Dollars On Cell-Site Simulator To Track People’s Locations

Detroit police purchased surveillance technology that allows police to actively track people’s locations through their cell phones, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.

In October 2017, the Detroit Police Department (DPD) obtained a cell-site simulator, which is a type of surveillance technology that locates and tracks phones by mimicking cell phone towers. Also known as IMSI catchers and Stingrays (a specific model of cell-site simulator made by Harris Corporation), cell-site simulators are increasingly used by law enforcement to locate suspects in investigations across the country.

The technology was purchased for $622,000 from KeyW Corporation in 2016, but DPD did not take possession of the equipment until the fall of 2017.

DPD’s cell-site simulator was deployed at least 66 times between January 1, 2018, and October 31, 2018.

Cell-site simulators allow police to collect the cellphone location information of anyone in the vicinity of the device. This is not limited to the targets of police investigations and includes passersby suspected of no wrongdoing.

Such dragnet surveillance has sparked widespread concern from civil liberties groups across the country. They argue cell-site simulators can be used to circumvent constitutional rights to privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

While some cities recently enacted legislation requiring police departments to inform the public and even gain approval from city council before obtaining new surveillance technologies, Detroit has no such policy in place.

Shelli Weisberg, political director at the ACLU of Michigan, believes the ability of law enforcement agencies like DPD to unilaterally acquire surveillance technology without public knowledge or approval is a huge problem.

“The fact that no public input is mandated is really problematic,” Weisberg said. “Having a privacy ordinance like that would be beneficial in Michigan.”

Additionally, a non-disclosure agreement between the City of Detroit and KeyW shows Detroit must notify the company of records requests pertaining to its work “immediately,” so that it can seek to block their disclosure.

“KEYW shall, if it chooses, take action to prevent the disclosure and notify the receiving party of this action in no more than the time receiving party has to respond to the disclosure request,” the NDA reads.

https://shadowproof.com/2019/05/08/detroit-police-spent-more-than-half-million-dollars-on-cell-site-simulator-to-track-peoples-locations/

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business

What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing.

Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better.

Week after week, the script changes (Donald Trump’s Tweets, Congress’ hearings on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, the military’s endless war drums, the ever-widening field of candidates for the 2020 presidential race, etc.) with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama.

The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places, and the audience members are quick to forget past mistakes and move on to the next spectacle.

All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the dark backstage, hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights and parading actors.

Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama, vitriol and scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent” government today, with elected officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents, routinely performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very little to move the country forward.

Yet behind the footlights, those who really run the show are putting into place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at contributing to the workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any opportunity to voice our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late.

It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.

Indeed, while mainstream America has been fixated on the drama-filled reality show being televised from the White House, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/d_is_for_dictatorship_while_america_feuds_the_police_state_shifts_into_high_gear

The Myth of a Disunited and Dysfunctional Palestine Is an Israeli Invention

The myth of the disunited and dysfunctional Palestinian is very much an Israeli invention that precedes the inception of Hamas, and even Fatah. This Zionist notion, which has been embraced by the current Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, argues that ‘Israel has no peace partner’.

The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29 brought together many speakers and hundreds of academics, journalists, activists and students from Turkey and all over the world.

The conference was a rare opportunity aimed at articulating a discourse of international solidarity that is both inclusive and forward thinking.

There was near consensus that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement must be supported, that Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ must be defeated and that normalization must be shunned.

When it came to articulating the objectives of the Palestinian struggle, however, the narrative became indecisive and unclear. Although none of the speakers made a case for a two-state solution, our call for one democratic state from Istanbul – or any other place outside Palestine – seemed partially irrelevant. For the one state solution to become the overriding objective of the pro-Palestine movement worldwide, the call has to come from a Palestinian leadership that reflects the true aspirations of the Palestinian people.

One speaker after the other called for Palestinian unity, imploring Palestinians for guidance and for articulating a national discourse. Many in the audience concurred with that assessment as well. One audience member even blurted out the cliched question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” Luckily, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela, was himself a speaker. He answered forcefully that Mandela was only the face of the movement, which encompassed millions of ordinary men and women, whose struggles and sacrifices ultimately defeated apartheid.

Following my speech at the conference, I met with several freed Palestinian prisoners as part of my research for my forthcoming book on the subject.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-myth-of-a-disunited-and-dysfunctional-palestine-is-an-israel-invention/258303/

Christopher Jon Bjerknes says Jewish leaders

are working to fulfil Jewish prophecy

which calls for a nuclear holocaust that

will kill millions including many Jews.

He says Israel will join China and Russia

against the US in this war.

Trump is following this blueprint.

Ninety per cent of Americans opposes war with Iran. Why is there (((no outcry))) against recent developments?

"So will the alt-right abandon its Trump worship and actually put America first by protesting this drive to war? Who will take to the streets and demonstrate to oppose this bellicose posturing, which is already costing us massive amounts of money? … Trump is putting Israel and Russia first and setting America up for destruction." –CJB

Maduro Expels Dozens of Officers From Venezuela Army After Failed Coup

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed a decree either reducing in rank or expelling dozens of officers, including high-ranking ones, from the country's armed forces due to their involvement in a recent coup attempt, local media reported.

According to Gaceta Oficial cited by local radio, these measures affected the former head of the Bolivarian intelligence service SEBIN, Gen. Manuel Figuera, five lieutenant colonels, four majors, four captains, six lieutenants and 35 sergeants.

Lt. Col. Ilich Sanchez of the Venezuelan National Guard, who in recent months led the security services of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, is among those expelled.

Large-scale protests against Maduro began in Venezuela on 21 January soon after he was sworn in for a new term. Guaido proclaimed himself an interim leader of the country. A number of Western countries, including the United States, backed his claim.

Maduro, in turn, has accused the United States of trying to orchestrate a coup in order to install Guaido as its puppet. Russia, China, and a number of other countries have voiced their support for Maduro as the only legitimate president of Venezuela.

On 30 April, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido urged Venezuelan civilians and servicemen to take to the streets to help depose constitutionally-elected President Nicolas Maduro.

In response, Maduro said that the commanders of all regions and zones of integral defence had reiterated their full loyalty to the people, constitution and homeland. The coup attempt turned violent and resulted in some 240 people being injured, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905091074833970-venezuela-army-failed-coup-officers-maduro/

Trump and Kushner being sued for keeping Saudi meetings off the record

A lawsuit has been filed against US President Donald Trump and his son in law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, alleging their failure to keep records of meetings with foreign government officials, including some from Saudi Arabia.

The lawsuit was filed yesterday in a District of Columbia Court by three different institutions including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). On its website, the group describes itself as a non-profit organisation of lawyers seeking to “reduce the influence of money in politics and help foster a government that is ethical and accountable.”

Details of numerous instances where Trump and Kushner are said to have broken the law have been cited, including five meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Note takers were also absent during Kushner’s meetings with top Saudi officials. The lawsuit describes Kushner as having several meetings recently in Riyadh that “excluded State Department officials, thereby avoiding the creation of a record of his conversations.”

According to CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder, “It is clear that President Trump and White House officials have gone to great lengths to hold high-level meetings with foreign governments and carry out foreign policy objectives while blatantly ignoring recordkeeping laws and preventing national security officials and the American people from understanding what they are doing.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190508-trump-and-kushner-being-sued-for-keeping-saudi-meetings-off-the-record/

>>6449542

Are you another nutjob who is about to go postal due to MK?

Kinda sounds that way

We ain't about that shit btw

Top CIA analyst: Israel partisans push US to war